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The new health plan from House Rules Committee chair Pete Sessions and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee member Bill Cassidy would end or undermine all major elements of health reform, including its...

Congressional Republicans who oppose health reform (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) often say their plans to repeal and replace it would preserve one of its most popular elements: protections for people with pre-existing conditions. But that’s not the case — and it probably won’t be the case with the health plan that House...

Any health plan from House GOP leaders would likely scrap much, if not all, of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) most popular feature: the market reforms that allow a broad array of people — including those with pre-existing conditions — to buy insurance that meets minimum coverage standards in the individual and small-group...

Ever since health reform (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) became law in 2010, some state officials and policy experts have continued suggesting that its “state innovation waivers” will let states make sweeping changes to health reform and Medicaid beginning in 2017. But let’s be clear: the law...

For months, insurers have claimed that people are abusing special enrollment periods (SEPs), which allow people to newly enroll in a marketplace health plan (or change plans) outside the regular open enrollment period if they experience a major life change such as having a child, getting married, moving, or losing other coverage. Insurers won a major victory this week when the Department of...

While the next open enrollment period for individuals and families to buy marketplace coverage for 2016 will get significant focus, health reform has another open enrollment period that also deserves attention...

Congressional Republican health plans, developed in case the Supreme Court invalidates health insurance subsidies in states with federal marketplaces, purport to help the 6.4 million people now receiving subsidies. But they do nothing for new enrollees who would otherwise be eligible for subsidies. That’s a big problem for millions of potential enrollees and for the marketplaces’ future....

With the Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell looming, another Republican legislative proposal seeks to use that decision to undo most of health reform, likely leaving millions of low- and moderate-income enrollees in federal marketplaces uninsured or substantially underinsured.